In celebration of Switzerland’s rich architectural heritage, the four Swiss architecture schools and our sister-organization SHARE in Boston present Inventioneering Architecture , an interactive exhibit and accompanying lecture series on Swiss architectural teaching. Participants include members of the architecture faculties of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ); Academy of Architecture, Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Mendrisio; Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL); and the Institute of Architecture at the University of Geneva.

Connected by swissnex, Switzerland’s four architecture schools have created this interactive exhibition and lecture series in an effort to recognize the accomplishments of their architects and to further illustrate each school’s unique approach to teaching architecture.

"We want to expose the Swiss method of architecture instruction to other cultural contexts," explains Architecture Professor Marc Angelil, ETH Zurich.  "This exhibit provides an exciting opportunity to share our perspectives, gather feedback, and evaluate what we are doing.  After San Francisco, we plan to take the exhibit to Houston and other cities in China, the United Arab Emirates and Buenos Aires."

Exhibit

Inventioneering Architecture features a 40-meter-long (131-foot-long) platform of an imaginative cross-section of the Swiss Alps, imported from Switzerland and created specifically for this event.  This exhibition will give visitors a physical and intellectual opportunity to experience the differences between Swiss architecture pedagogy and American architecture teaching methods.  Visitors can walk on the platform, view monitors with web-based architecture content and add their own thoughts at various terminals. An overhead screen will display Swiss architecture projects in CAAD software.

Dates

San Francisco: October 2005
Boston: January 20 to March 31 2006, 8am to 8pm, Logan Airport, terminal E. For more information please visit SHARE’s event listing
Many more locations around the world in 2006 & 2007.

Lectures
Series of lectures featuring Swiss architects are organized in each location of the traveling exhibit and can be viewed online at
www.architecture-radio.org/inventioneering

In San Francisco, swissnex and the California College of the Arts had the pleasure to welcome Marc Angelil, ETH Zurich, Andrea Deplazes, ETH Zurich, Ines Lamuniere, EPFL, Valerio Olgiati, Academy of Architecture (USI), Dirk Hebel & Jorg Stollman, ETH Zurich

Sponsors : Presence Switzerland, Holcim, Arts Council of Switzerland Pro Helvetia, swissnex